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Youth Ambassador Program Youth Ambassador Program Session 3: Promote Gender Equality & Empower Women (part 1) CHIME IN Youth Ambassador Program-Session 3-Created by Kelly Sullivan Walden 1 Table of Contents: SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. ! Inspirational Quotes p. 3 ! Session Overview: Purpose, Payoff, Process p. 4 ! Section 1: Featured SDG-Sustainable Development Goal p. 5-7 o Part 1: SDG 5 Overview " SDG 5 Targets o Part 2: Inquiry into SDG 5—Past (Problem) & Present (Progress) o Part 3: SDG Hero—Rula Ghani o Must See Videos ! Section 2: Hero’s Journey Stage 3—Refusal of the Call p. 8-10 ! Section 3: Leadership Modality—SLANT p. 11-12 ! Section 4: Action Plan/Homework p. 13 ! Section 5: Resources (books, videos, websites) p. 14 CHIME IN Youth Ambassador Program-Session 3-Created by Kelly Sullivan Walden 2 Inspirational Quotes for the Month: “Women hold up half the sky” ~ Mao Zedong “A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.” ~Diane Mariechild “Ensuring gender equality and empowering women in all respects are required to combat poverty, hunger and disease and to ensure sustainable development. The limited progress in empowering women and achieving gender equality is a pervasive shortcoming that extends beyond the goal itself” ~Sha Zukang UN Under-Secretary for Economic & Social Affairs 2008. “When a woman rises up in glory, her energy is magnetic and her sense of possibility contagious.” ~Marianne Williamson: A Woman's Worth CHIME IN Youth Ambassador Program-Session 3-Created by Kelly Sullivan Walden 3 Session Three Overview (Purpose, Payoff, and Process) Purpose: Our third session is to gain an overview of SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls, with regards to the past (problem) and the present (progress). We will learn a new leadership skill (SLANT) to support more effective communication. We will also become aware of the “Refusal of the Call” and how to deal with resistance to one’s noble path. Payoff: We are becoming more knowledgeable about issues related to gender equality, more confident as we learn to effectively present ourselves to a group, and inspired as we feel a momentum beginning to build with the Youth Ambassador Program and the energizing support of partners and schools around the world. Process: This session will cover the following: ! Introduction o The Youth Ambassador of the month, and primary teammates o Read inspirational quotes ! Featured SDG: Achieve Gender equality and empower all women and girls ! Inquire into SDG o Past (Problem) o Present (Progress) ! Explanation and discussion of Hero’s Journey Stage 3: Refusal of the Call ! Sharing leadership modality: SLANT ! Action Plan/Homework ! Resources CHIME IN Youth Ambassador Program-Session 3-Created by Kelly Sullivan Walden SDG Overview: Promote Gender Equality & Empower Women 4 Statistics related to SDG 5: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls ! Gender inequality has a negative effect on economic growth. ! In Kenya, women own nearly half of all microbusinesses—small and medium enterprises, but they receive less than 10% of the available credit. ! Violence affects at least one in three women worldwide. ! One in five women will suffer rape or attempted rape in the course of their lifetime. ! Indian girls are 61% more likely than boys to die between the ages of 1 and 5, due to neglect. ! Approximately 80 percent of farmers in Africa are women. ! The children of a woman with five years of primary school education have a survival rate 40 percent higher than children of women with no education. ! A woman living in sub-Saharan Africa has a 1 in 16 chances of dying in pregnancy. This compares with a 1 in 3,700 risks for a woman from North America. ! Every minute, a woman somewhere dies in pregnancy or childbirth. This adds up to 1,400 women dying each day-an estimated 529,000 each year from pregnancy- related causes. ! Educated girls have better opportunities to earn higher wages, and to participate in community life and decision-making. They tend to marry later, have fewer, healthier children who are more likely to attend school themselves. CHIME IN Youth Ambassador Program-Session 3-Created by Kelly Sullivan Walden 5 SDG (5) Targets: Achieve Universal Primary Education SDG 5. Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. 5.1 End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere. 5.2 Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in public and private spheres, including trafficking, sexual, and other types of exploitation. 5.3 Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilations. 5.4 Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies, and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate. 5.5 Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decision-making in political, economic, and public life. 5.6 Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Program of Action of the ICPD and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences. 5.a Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance, and natural resources in accordance with national laws. 5.b Enhance the use of enabling technologies, in particular ICT, to promote women’s empowerment. 5.c Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels. CHIME IN Youth Ambassador Program-Session 3-Created by Kelly Sullivan Walden 6 Inquiry into This Month’s SDG: Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. The following are questions to research and present during our live session. For those following along, these are the questions for the students to answer for their written and oral reports: Part 1: The Past (aka the Problem) Describe the history of gender inequality in the developing world. Report about the background of female empowerment that includes: • What is the history (background) of gender inequality? • What are the factors that contribute to this issue? What are the geographic region(s) most affected by a lack of female empowerment? • What are your personal thoughts, feelings, and/or experiences with this issue? Part 2: The Present (aka the Progress) Describe what is currently being done to promote gender equality and to empower women. Report about who is making the greatest strides promoting gender equality that includes: • Who are the individuals or organizations contributing the most to this goal? • What work are they doing that has made the biggest impact? • What geographic region(s) are the most affected by their philanthropy, innovation, or support? • What are some of the statistics that show the difference they are making? • What about their work inspires you? What do YOU think it would take to resolve this issue? CHIME IN Youth Ambassador Program-Session 3-Created by Kelly Sullivan Walden 7 SDG Hero: Rula Ghani Afghanistan's new first lady Afghanistan first lady Rula Ghani Sana Safi, Carine Torbey and Kawoon Khamoosh contributed to this report (BBC News) Afghanistan's new first lady Rula Ghani looks set to challenge the tradition of leaders' wives staying out of the public eye. In an interview with the BBC just days after moving into her new office in the presidential palace, Mrs. Ghani said she hopes to encourage greater respect for women. "I would like to give women out there the courage and the possibility to do something about improving their lives," she said. Mrs. Ghani has already begun to break the mold. During the election campaign of her husband, Ashraf Ghani - the eventual winner of the 2014 presidential race - Rula Ghani was the only candidate's wife to appear in public. And when the new leader paid an emotional tribute to his wife in his inauguration speech, it became a talking point for the whole country. Mrs. Ghani says it was a revealing gesture, which summed up her vision of how attitudes to women could change. "By mentioning me the way he did, my husband really showed exactly what I mean by helping Afghan women be more assertive, more conscious of their role, more respected." CHIME IN Youth Ambassador Program-Session 3-Created by Kelly Sullivan Walden 8 What makes Mrs. Ghani stand out even more is the fact that she was born and brought up in a Maronite-Christian family in Lebanon. She met Ashraf Ghani in the 1970s when they were both studying political science at the American university in Beirut. Rula Ghani had just returned from a year's study at the prestigious Sciences Po institute in Paris where she was caught up in the 1968 student protests. Her brother Riad Saade says the experience helped shape her social conscience. "When she came back to Lebanon she went down south with a group of volunteers, building schools," her brother recalls, speaking to the BBC in Beirut. Mr. Saade says his sister and Ashraf Ghani were a natural match and shared common ideals. "They have been fighting together all through their life in a very beautiful way. Whether it would be in their student days or his academic life, or at the World Bank or later in Kabul." Mrs. Ghani's cosmopolitan background seems a world away from the reality of many Afghan women in a country where domestic abuse is rife and women fleeing violence at home can end up in jail.
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